
A space of exchange for innovation in PUBLIC procurement

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- The strategic planning of the Public Procurement Directorate General sometimes considers market trends and new technologies; however, it is not a common practice.
- Some of the employees of the Public Contracting General Directorate recognize the innovation indicators or results that have been achieved with innovation.
- The work team dedicated to making innovation initiatives possible in the entity exists, however, it needs strengthening and greater visibility within the entity.
- The Entity's management team talks about innovation, but there is no visible commitment to it.
- There is no established knowledge management process or tools to perform this function.
- The existence of a system of incentives related to innovation is unknown, however, there is an opportunity for improvement with respect to its definition and dissemination.

- Although there is collaborative work between areas, it is important to encourage more collaboration between interdisciplinary teams and spaces for sharing with people from different areas or departments.
- The entity does not provide physical spaces to generate ideas.
- Tolerance to error should be encouraged within the organizational culture, since it is important to understand error/failure as part of learning.
- Iterations are rarely carried out in the projects, there is no mention of minimum viable products, prototypes and elements that allow contrasting solutions and ideas with users.

- There is no established digital transformation plan.
- Currently there are no processes of socialization and communication of the digital transformation strategy.
- Some of the people in the entity are familiar with innovation and prototyping methodologies.
- The collaborators have an intermediate level of appropriation of digital competencies.
- The importance of the digitalization of processes is contemplated and efforts have been made towards it.

- The entity has not developed open public innovation activities.
- The importance of cooperating with other entities such as Universities, Startups and to develop innovation and digital transformation projects is recognized.

The General Directorate of Public Contracting considers that the Entity has not been able to materialize the results of its innovation efforts to a great extent.